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Football is the people’s game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world.
Football may have played little part in making East Germany a European sporting superpower but as Alan McDougall explains in this splendid new book there was a voluntarist ethos to the game that made it dynamic at both regional and national levels. Football mattered because it was popular and it was popular because it mattered. This is the best account of football behind the Iron Curtain since Robert Edelman, written with clarity, style and wit.’ The People’s Game is [Gary’s] call to mend football, harmed by the greed and selfishness of bigger clubs and associations.‘ Radio Times Neville at his authentic best. [He] is the closest thing to a spokesman there is for English football.’ Sunday Times DR 5 (Staatliches Komitee für Körperkultur und Sport bzw. Staatssekretariat für Körperkultur und Sport)
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Yet we remain confident that it is young specialists such as yourself, who will lead this county to a stable and prosperous future. Some stuff conductsMany things conduct electricty, some do it better than others. Humans are very good at it too. When certain items are charged, they become a lot more powerful. Q: Football has at times been denigrated as a working-class pastime, and your book draws attention to the complicated relationship between class and football. Do British football films help give particular insight into the complexity of class in Britain across the century? A passionate and personal account of how football has lost its soul by former player and leading pundit, Gary Neville.
If Olympic sport was the GDR's perfect child, football was its unruly but ever popular sibling. In this extensively researched, stylishly written and highly accessible survey, McDougall has provided an English-speaking audience with its first full-scale account of the people's game in East Germany. The result is an excellent and essential contribution to our understanding of GDR society and the peculiarities of football in the wider transnational context of Cold War sport.' Some stuff shootsThe game contains a varied collection of projectile based weapons for you to play with. The big downside of the book is that it doesn't look as if it has been proof read or edited. Lots of typos, grammatical errors, incomplete sentences. There is also a lot of repetition: it is as though each chapter has been written in isolation so the same context setting is repeated. Gary Neville usually talks a lot of sense, and writes it too . . . Neville's words are timely.' Henry Winter, The Times represents an excellent example of research using football to illustrate the colourful ambiguities of everyday life in the GDR.'British football remains, arguably, the sole bastion for homophobia, and The Pass, adapted from John Donnelly’s Royal Court play with Russell Tovey reprising his stage role, is a film well worth seeing, about a Premiership star struggling to ‘pass’ as heterosexual. It challenges, yes, but the problem for the film, as I recall a review pointing out, was finding an audience: would conventional soccer fans want to see a film about a gay player wrestling with his sexual identity, and would a modern LGBT crowd be sympathetic to the player’s at times self-loathing decisions? The beautiful game is under threat. The greed and selfishness of the biggest clubs is harming the sport, with smaller clubs struggling for financial survival and supporters being left behind. It's time to fix football.
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